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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH Bt Sunday, October 12, 2003 Plan to strong-arm Nordstrom is outinleft field What's open, what's closed 9 Columbus Day LAURIE WILSON T om, I guessit’s time toad- mit that I just don’t un derstand the controversy over Nordstrom in downtown Salt Lake City. I thoughtit was an issue that would go away, and | wouldn't have to confess myignorance. But with the announcementof the LDS hurch’s plans for downtown, the issueis as ubiquitous as eveT First ofail, let’s deal with the ‘downtown”versus “Gateway” mystery. I hate to break it to you, but to most of us wholive along the Wasatch Front, The Gateway is downtown. I drive 10 or 15 miles on 1-15 to 600 South and exit to get downtown. The Gateway andthe other two malls are only a short walk Let’s draw an analogy. Say the kids in the neighborhood are starting a baseball team. The kid next door is a phenomenal shortstop and you need a shortstop in the worst way. Best ofall, he scores every time he comes up to bat. But he doesn’t want to play shortstop. He Wants to play inleft field (The won't let him play left field and Tom BaRBERI ZCMI malls no longer draw enough shoppers for Nordstrom to remain there. So if you were They pulled in a couple of those players and went on to win the championship. the CEO of Nordstrom and you Salt Lake City Public Ser- Open saying he didn’t know about closing on Sundays. As far as let- Salt Lake City School District: Open 48 your baseball team, only in- Fast forward to today’s mess. Laurie, all this posturing is just stead of a bunch of kids they are a major league team —the Nordstrom Mannequins — and they are playing in a small, deteriorating ball park that isn’t drawing much in the way of crowds anymore. The team goes to City Hall and demands a newstadi- Let’s harken back to those bygone days of yesteryear, the Deedee Corradini era and how wegot into the Main Street mess and the battle that made Utah look like the homeof the Hatfields and McCoys. Remember that the Main Street deal was tied to The Gatewaydeal. To Deedee’s credit, she wanted to have the city grow and the only The city doesn’t wantto lose the team,so it offers to build them a new stadium with taxpayers’ money because they won’t i know the difference: when With deals to movethe train tracks and more deals with the their parking ticket fines, busieS licenses, fees, permits, as- um. their taxes go up along with — Boyer Co. to create the Gateway project, the west side of downtown has flourished. With an eye on this very problem occurring, some restrictions were placed on thesize ofretailers at vices (garbage pickup): Open was very cagey on the issues, f moving. Think of Nordstrom but were pretty good at shortstop andatbat. David Burton when asked about made by Presiding Bishop H. Works is because this state is run likea ently to keep Nordstrom where it is. But the Crossroads and Salt Lake County Sanitation (garbage pickup): Open allowed to sell alcohol. Burton derstandhalf of what is goingon With a handful of players who maybe didn’t have the namerecognition of this guy Nordstrom, LDS Church’s grandplans for Crossroads mall is a statement to make Gateway happen. Sweet. So the guy (whoselast name, the Gatewaypart ofdowntown.{ understand The Gatewayisn’t zonedfor stores that big, appar erage Control (liquor stores): Closed to stay open Sundays and business as usual to see what way to grow was to go west. Division of Alcoholic Bev- ing forward. One interesting part of the she got $8 million for Main Street and that was enough cash can be madeout of these threats family business, behind closed doors with little if any public notification, let alone input. whatthey wanted and are mov- whether shops and restaurants of the main reasons we don’t un- incidentally, is Nordstrom) picks up his miracle bat and goes to play for a team in another neighborhood (or city) wherehe not only plays where he wants to play, but continues to score every at bat against you. , U.S.Postal Service: Closed, except for location at the airport. They don’t really care if Team Nordy stays or goes and said as much because they got “Deedee, what were you thinking?” The mayor didn’t care — he has to play shortstop, thinking you've backed him into a corner and he has no choice but to play shortstop for you. scouting and actually came up It just seems logical to me. What I don’t understandis the reasoning that if we don’tlet Nordstrom go to The Gateway, they will haveto stay where they are. Does thecity really As Dr. Phil would say, aurie, your fantasy baseball story is even more complicated than the SLC vs. Nordstrom soap opera. One Nordstrom's desire to moveto weren't doing well in one mall and you were prohibited from moving a few blocks away in the downtown area where you might do better, wouldn't you move somewhereelse entirely? Nordstrom right whereitis. You have to wonderif anybody talked to Nordy’s aboutthis incestuousdeal at the time. fielder. So you tell him you seem to have a problem with Now some city residents The Gateway. This was to keep Gateway). He’s also a greatleft fielder, but you don’t need a left Or the story could have another ending. It could just be that when the neighborhood team knew they couldn’t keep this player unless they let him playleft field, he becamethe left fielder. " Then the team went out apart Pornt/COUNTERPOINT ae think it has that kind of control? Do they plan to chain the clerks to the counters? of downtown. Sessments andthelike. This story has a little different twist in that it is not just the Sindy in the complex would be allowed Pabiie Works taur- | 7 tele ee pickupy whether the eateries would be far : West Valley City Public ting brewskies be sold in the (garbage pickup): Granite School District: mall, he said they would follow the lawsof the state in such matters. Open ve Open That was a sly answer, con- School District: ao sidering thatthe LDS Business Murray School District: College and BYU Extension School would be relocated in the Open TRAX & UTA bus service: area and the lawsofthestate re- Regular Schedule garding alcohol sales and proximity to schools might just take Wells Fargo Bank: Closed Zions Bank: Closed care of that question. City & County Offices: As far as Nordstrom goes, Closed one wonders what kindof tax breaksor other incentives they Cleend State Offices: " can pry from City Hall to keep Federal Offices: Closed them from bolting.It’s nothing Albertsons: Open personal, just business. Family Smith’s: Open business. Ciao! Harmon’s: Open Tom Barberi is a talk-show Pred Mayer: Open ; host on KALL700 weekdaysfrom Parking Meters: parkingfor 2 hours City vs. the Team. There is a wild card — the LDS Church — which just bought the other half Tom, don’t you just love a Do You Have Pre-Diabetes? good come-from-behind sports story? Do you know that millions of Americans have a condition known as “Pre-Diabetes”, they have higher than normal bicod sugar leveis, but not diabetes. Laurie J. Wilson is a professor ofcommunications at Brigham Young University. if you are 50 or older and at risk for diabetes, you might qualify for participation in a clinical trial for prevention of diabetes. 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